For no reason I can fathom this posting from April last year about Blogging Semiotic Remora Fish attracts a steady stream of rubbishy spam attempted comments aimed at selling running shoes. I merely sigh and delete them. Why that one?
For no reason I can fathom this posting from April last year about Blogging Semiotic Remora Fish attracts a steady stream of rubbishy spam attempted comments aimed at selling running shoes. I merely sigh and delete them. Why that one?
Remember all those eggcorns? A nice one in Telegraph Mobile today: European shares endure their worst week in almost a year as investors speculate whether Eurozone countries will tow the line. Whereas in fact it should be … Meanwhile over at Plane Stupid: The appointment puts BAA in an incredibly strong position […]
Here at The Monkey Cage is an interesting post on why so many countries which sign the Convention against Torture are themselves high on the list of practising torture. Could they be … hypocrites? Is it because they want to ingratiate themselves with the West? Or is it rather to […]
Ralph Peters praises the ruthlessness of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner who has authorised the expansion of ‘drone’ attacks on key terrorist suspects overseas: The Pakistani Taliban is losing CEOs faster than Detroit … This is another Amazon Space issue. The best (if not only) way to deal with individual […]
The decay of the Climate Change movement has reached the point where those of us politely pointing to some of its deep contradictions are no longer the ‘denialists’. Rather the denialists are those who insist that the wheezing pantechnicon must roll onwards even as its wheels start to fall off. It all got […]
Via the Browser, this heavyweight piece by Yves Smith at naked capitalism which looks at the issues swirling around the parlous position of Greece within the Eurozone and the wider implications. Including this bold thought by Dani Rodrik: I have an “impossibility theorem” for the global economy that is like that. It […]
Is this. Do you want to use about a minute of your fleeting, oh-so-precious time left on Earth to watch a ridiculous cartoon of a vigorously dancing pair of buttocks? Yes. You. Do. So, what are you waiting for?
Is up and running at Suz Blog. Good link to Love and Liberty’s post: New Labour’s 4,289 New Laws – Yet Blair Walks Free And a wail for national liberation from Nourishing Obscurity.
Following Swedish developments closely as one must, I found this story linking my team Tottenham to an individual example of Swedish bandy extremism. And is some furtive ethnic cleansing busily under way in Malmo? It is always difficult to work out when something is just an idiotic if unpleasant episode of local and no wider […]
As regular readers will recall, I have written at some length about the bewildering complexity – and stunning simplicity – of the EU Budget process. When all the feuding and whining subsides, it comes down to the banal fact that a few countries Give, and most countries Get. Those who Get […]
